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"Thanks to the Göncz report on micro-credit and the controversy that surrounded the financing of this project, I went to see what this famous Progress programme – which the left is so adamant should not be deprived of a single cent for the financing of micro-enterprises and individual initiatives – is all about. Because, for the moment, what purpose does Progress, defined as the ‘Community programme for employment and social solidarity’, really serve? That of creating paperwork, and of financing studies and reports. Because, for the moment, Progress’s ‘target’ audience is neither the unemployed nor the excluded, but political decision makers and opinion formers.
Some people are refusing to deduct EUR 100 million for micro-credit from the paltry sum of EUR 700 million allocated over seven years. A little less money for those who profit from the system, a little more money for Europeans, with a constant budget: one cannot argue with that! The time has come to stop observing the poverty and the difficulties of our fellow citizens and to take concrete action instead. I have one reservation, however: micro-credit is necessary only because the ‘banksters’, who are so quick to pocket State aid, are not doing what they are supposed to be doing: pumping money into the economy."@en1
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